Quotes on Fiction

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.